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The first bill signed into law by Obama was the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009, relaxing the statute of limitations for equal-pay lawsuits. [207] Five days later, he signed the reauthorization of the State Children's Health Insurance Program to cover an additional four million uninsured children. [208]
In 1980, David Koch pledged to "abolish" child labor laws as a part of his vice president campaign on the Libertarian ticket. In 1982, Ronald Reagan expanded the legal range of jobs permitted for children ages 14 and 15, and made it easier for employers to pay less than minimum wage. [37] States have varying laws covering youth employment.
The first violent conflicts leading up to the American Civil War occurred between two neighboring Midwestern states, Kansas and Missouri, involving anti-slavery Free-Staters and pro-slavery "Border Ruffian" elements, that took place in the Kansas Territory and the western frontier towns of Missouri roughly between 1854 and 1858.
The name was partly chosen to pay homage to Thomas Jefferson's Democratic-Republican Party. [53] The first official party convention was held on July 6, 1854, in Jackson, Michigan. [54] The party emerged from the great political realignment of the mid-1850s, united in pro-capitalist stances with members often valuing radicalism. [55]
NML Capital, Ltd., the Supreme Court ruled on June 16, 2014, against Argentina's appeal of a lower court ruling that Argentina's government must uphold its contractual obligation to pay in full those bondholders who refused to accept reduced payments negotiated in foreign debt restructurings carried out by Argentina in 2005 and 2010 after that ...
While Donnegan had broken no laws, he was an influential black man, who had also been married to Sarah Rudolph, a 52-year-old Irish-German woman, for over 30 years. [ 206 ] [ 214 ] [ 215 ] [ 213 ] He was said to have also angered his all-white neighborhood, as he refused to sell his property and move.
John Peter Altgeld (December 30, 1847 – March 12, 1902) was an American politician and the 20th Governor of Illinois, serving from 1893 until 1897.He was the first Democrat to govern that state since the 1850s.